Hi! On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 10:53:43PM -0500, grok wrote: > I'm surprised -- and a little distressed -- that this > appears to be a longtime non-issue for the mpg123 support > team. Is no one using this package? I've been waiting for > this problem to go away -- but it isn't, clearly.
It didn't go away because neither upstream (according to the bug tracking system) nor me was aware of this problem. Thanks for reporting it now. > Now, a situation exists with mpg123 where numerous Internet > MP3 streams produce garbled text output on the screen when > playing -- and too often begin to actually screw up the > display, so that the terminal has to be completely reset or > even re-started. I do not understand the situation enuff to > even begin to address the problem in that regard; but it > seems like some sort of buffer error to me: some sort of > overflow/bounds check or sanity check failure or something. > On top of this, these streams often fail, where they didn't > previously. Note that in most or all of these cases, I can > move to the mp3blaster program and then run these same MP3 > streams pretty much as they've always been run (mp3blaster > has its own issues). I believe this is due to a recent addition of displaying Shoutcast (icy) meta data. There's little information about this format available, but apparantly it sometimes contains non-printable characters that can mess up subsequent terminal output. Can you confirm that the problem disappears for you if you run mpg123 without option -v? If so, my guess is likely to be correct. Regards, Daniel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
